Acting as a chronological survey, Mark Moore Gallery: Statements introduce a featured gallery artist through images and candid interview. From noteworthy early examples to present bodies, the works featured in Statements act as an overview of the varying practices and movements implemented by a given artist in tandem with their thoughts and interpretations.
Music is the genesis of Tim Bavington's paintings. Through paint, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and the visual as he transforms guitar solos, melodies and bass lines into vertical bands of color. Tracks from bands such as The Darkness, Oasis and The Rolling Stones become vibrant bands of color, and bridge compositional concepts between seemingly unlike disciplines. Although Bavington has a method that designates sound to color and composition, the paintings are not literal translations; they remain open to intuition and decision making, allowing for a distinct artistic presence. Experimenting with album cover motifs in his later work, Bavington exercises his adept employment of duality in homage to his influences in both music and art. While he generates tributes to the guitar gods and vinyl luminaries of his record collection, Bavington simultaneously "covers" the heavy-hitters of contemporary painting by converting popular album covers of decades past into paeans to the color-field paintings of the 50s and 60s. Atmospheric tributes to musician and painter alike, Bavington's work does not merely wed conceptual disparates, but rather eradicates the divide between them.
Can't Take It With You, 2010. synthetic polymer on canvas 84 x 84 inches
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Science, 2010 pastel on Rives BFK paper 30 x 30 inches
Science, 2010 pastel on Rives BFK paper 30 x 30 inches
Science, 2010 pastel on Rives BFK paper 30 x 30 inches
"Like pop songs, Bavington's abstractions waste no time in getting your attention. And like symphonies, they unfold slowly, with shifting tempos that lure memories into the moment, filling it with infinite richness." – David Pagel, Los Angeles Times (2010) T I M B AV I N G TO N
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Installation at Mark Moore Gallery (from left to right) Bold As Love, 2010 synthetic polymer on canvas 72 x 72 inches Witchcraft, 2010 synthetic polymer on canvas 60 x 60 inches
Pyramid, 2010 Synthetic polymer on canvas 36 x 120 inches
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COVERS top row: I Fought The Law, 2009 synthetic polymer on canvas 36 x 36 inches Paint for Pleasure, 2009 synthetic polymer on canvas 36 x 36 inches bottom row: Get Happy!, 2009 synthetic polymer on canvas 36 x 36 inches Happy Today, 2009 synthetic polymer on canvas 36 x 36 inches
“Bavington’s art makes the visual equivalent of joyful noise. It’s feelgood art, with an urbane and sophisticated sensibility.” – Robert L. Pincus, San Digeo Union Tribune (2010) T I M B AV I N G TO N
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Judy Is A Punk, 2009 synthetic polymer on canvas 64 x 96 inches
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"Where Greenberg favored reductive purity in abstract painting, Mr. Bavington offers conceptual mongrelism and psychedelic hedonism. Against a morality of Puritan restraint, he asserts an expansive aesthetics of seduction and sensory intoxication." – Ken Johnson, New York Times (2009)
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Champagne Supernova, 2009 synthetic polymer on canvas 120 x 96 inches
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Columbia, 2008 synthetic polymer on canvas over panel, (18 panels) 156 x 192 inches left: Installation view at Mark Moore Gallery, Columbia, 2008, 52 x 576 inches
Live Forever, 2008 synthetic polymer on canvas 96 x 96 inches
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Midnight Blues, 2008 synthetic polymer on canvas 48 x 144 inches
"Tim Bavington's paintings always come as a bit of a surprise...their renewal, refurbishment, and re-conceptualization of a traditional modernist painting format (the stripe) makes them seem at once joltingly new and uneasily familiar..." – Dave Hickey, 2006
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Step (In) Out, 2007 synthetic polymer on canvas 96 x 288 inches Installation at the Las Vegas Art Museum
Physical S.E.X., 2005 synthetic polymer on canvas, triptych 72 x 161 inches Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/ solo/ #1, 2001. acrylic on canvas 54 x 72 inches Collection of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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Born 1966, England, UK Lives and works in Las Vegas, NV
EDUCATION 1999 MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 1990 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 Decade, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA New Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009 Up in Suze's Room, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 2008 There We Were, Now Here We Are, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Hello, Hello, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, South Korea 2007 So it Goes………, Eleven Fine Art, London, UK Recent Paintings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY Modern Masters From The Chris Burmeister Collection, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Painting <=> Design, Peggy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA 2006 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, FRA 2005 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX Space Gallery, London, UK Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2003 Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA 2002 James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2001 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY 2000 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE 2009 Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Bowie, Clark and Faria, Toronto, Canada I Want You To Want Me, Marx & Zavattero Gallery, San Francisco, CA Small is Beautiful, Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, South Korea The Armory Show, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From The Neon Homeland, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Art Basel, Jack Shainman Gallery, Miami, FL
Roll With It, 2004 synthetic polymer on canvas, 96 x 120 inches Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
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Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From The Neon Homeland, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV Sound Waves - The Art of Sampling, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Dating Data, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA The Raw & the Cooked, Claremont Center for the Arts, Claremont, CA NADA Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Art Cologne, Mark Moore Gallery, Cologne, Germany Pink, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Fresh Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Airborne, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV Structure, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Flair, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA Trade Show, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA Live Like Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yes Tomorrow, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX New in Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Western States, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA NeoPainting, Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangu City, Korea Eye Candy, Scott White Gallery, San Diego, CA (Las) Vegans, curated by Dave Hickey, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM The Magic Hour: Dir Konvergenz von Kunst Und Las Vegas, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Graz, Austria Paint, American Style, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA New American Talent: The 15th Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Center, Austin, TX Hanging, curated by David Pagel, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX New American Talent: The 15th Exhibition, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Ultralounge, curated by Dave Hickey, Las Vegas, NV Ultralounge, curated by Dave Hickey, University of South Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
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Two by Two for AIDS and Art, The Rachofsky House, exhibit and auction to benefit AMFAR, Dallas, TX Optopussy, curated by David Quadrini, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX Unctious Youth, Action Space, Los Angeles, CA Bi-Design, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV Ultralounge, curated by Dave Hickey, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX 1-15, Post, curated by Jeffrey Vallance, Los Angeles, CA LA.-LV.-LA, Otis School of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Cranberry Show, Cranberry World West, NV
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK CAA (Creative Artists Agency), Beverly Hills, CA Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Fredrick R. Weisman Foundation Collection, CA General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis, MN Marnell Corrao Corporation, Las Vegas, NV Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Neiman Marcus Corporation, Dallas, TX Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Progressive Insurance Corporation, Cleveland, OH Summlung Mondstudio, Hamburg, Germany Thomas & Mack Co., Las Vegas, NV United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills, CA Vivendi Universal, Los Angeles, CA CATALOGUES & PUBLICATIONS Houston, Joe. Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s. New York: Merrell Publishers Ltd. in association with Columbus Museum of Art, 2007 Pagel, David. Painting <=> Design, Claremont Graduate University, January 826 2007. Rancho Cucamongo: Faust Printing, 2007. Hickey, Dave. Tim Bavington: Paintings 1998-2005. Gottingen: Steidl and Mark Moore Gallery, 2007. Sweet Gene, 1998 synthetic polymer on canvas 72 x 90 inches
Š 2010 Mark Moore Gallery and Tim Bavington. Published by Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA front cover: Science, 2010 synthetic polymer on canvas, triptych 24 x 54 inches left: 12 Bar Blues, 2009 archival ink jet print on arches paper 18 x 18 inches each Edition of 12 back cover: Long May You Run, 2010 synthetic polymer on canvas 64 x 64 inches MARK MOORE GALLERY 2 5 2 5 M i c h i g a n Av e A - 1 Santa Monica, CA 90404 www.markmooregallery.com All images appear courtesy of the artist and Mark Moore Gallery. No portion of the contents may be reproduced without the express written permission of the publisher.